Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL) – A Deviant Analysis

Un-published in the Israeli Media throughout March and April 2003

“The United States Is The Most Peaceful Nation On Earth.” – G. W. Bush

“Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.” – Tacitus, Agricola 30.5

(Where they create desolation, they call it peace.)

The media cannons are blasting away, and the gung-ho coverage is so noisy that the important questions and their answers are barely heard. Below we formulate those issues pertinent in forming our opinion about the impending war (“Is it moral?”, “Should we, as Israelis, support the war even if it is immoral?”, etc.)

So … what are the expected consequences of the war? What can we learn from the rationale offered for it? What are its motives? What are the alternatives?

First Outcome: Thousands of Dead, Injured and Misplaced People

A leaked UN document dated December 10, 2002 examines “Likely Humanitarian Scenarios” and based on WHO’s estimates concludes that “as many as 500,000 could require treatment to a greater or lesser degree as a result of direct or indirect injuries" (para. 23).

Moreover, based on a UNICEF analysis it estim

Actually, according to the US official sources even non-WMD attacks by Iraq are not necessarily forthcoming: the State Department's annual report on terrorism, released 4/30/2001, stated that the Iraqi regime “has not attempted an anti Western terrorist attack” since 1993.

It is quite staggering that this is the best the Secretary of State could come up with!

“Quite successful” in spite of the recently acknowledged fact (among others by longtime Executive Chairman of UNSCOM, Rolf EkÎus on July 28, 2002) that as the Iraqis claimed all along, the US used the inspections for spying on Iraq and for locating non-WMD military targets which were then bombed during Operation Desert Fox.

ates "that the nutritional status of some 3.03 million persons countrywide will be dire and they will require therapeutic feeding.” (para. 27).

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